tabby
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When the slumber party started at 8 p.m., the eight attendees gathered in Tail Town’s front lobby, home to resident fluffy cat queen Miss Yvonne and office manager Grizzly Bear, a brown tabby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“I called Delta and my staff went and got me a carrier, and I brought this kitten home,” she said of the gray tabby the couple named Tex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Since then, the white and tabby cat, officially introduced on Downing Street's website as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", has reigned supreme from the country's most photographed doorstep.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
When Alan gave his Persian tabby cat, Smokey, its regular flea treatment last year, he thought nothing could go wrong.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
As he pulled into the driveway of number four, the first thing he saw — and it didn’t improve his mood — was the tabby cat he’d spotted that morning.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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These untamed mousers would eventually evolve into the fluffy tabbies, Siberians and ragdolls that dominate today’s social-media algorithms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
I foster cats and I’m actually fostering two sister tabbies right now — Lucy and Ethel — and the CatCafe Lounge has taken probably 12 of the cats I’ve fostered and gotten them adopted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
She contends that cats—from tabbies to tigers—are quintessential products of evolution.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023
I have plans to make a music room, a library, and a cat heaven for my three tabbies, but I updated the studio first with plans to rent it out.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2022
For grays, blues, and light ash-coloured tabbies, the same care should be exercised, the only difference being the choice of ground colours.
From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir
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